Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the bouts of keen pain a curious life took possession of his brain , a life in which kings and queens floated on the water and white-clad saracens rode up and down before a cage in which was a crowned lion , and then , suddenly , the cage was empty and the saracens were knights in armour and the water on which they rode was a mountain like a tree in which birds nested and which burst into flames and was the phoenix ; and somewhere was the Holy Grail for which he reached out in vain , and a jewelled sword , and a unicorn that spoke but said nothing . |
| 2 | These duties were many and varied , but all of which he carried out with vigour . |
| 3 | Later that month , the Archbishop of Tuam delivered a sermon in which he came out against the mining . |
| 4 | Recently he penned probably the most abrasively intelligent letter ever to appear in Melody Maker , in which he laid out with admirable succinctness the differences between his pop aesthetic ( making sense of the world , pop as motivator ) and what he identified as the MM aesthetic of pop as dissipation . |
| 5 | Lawrie had 74 and McAllister a 75 in which he went out in 43 and returned in 32 . |
| 6 | But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood . |
| 7 | In addition to being an executive director of Mirror Group Newspapers , Mr. Haines cringingly wrote the authorised biography of the late Robert Maxwell , in which he threw out of the window what little journalistic integrity he ever had . |
| 8 | While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 . |
| 9 | From its lofty position one can see the parish of his birth , the route by which his mother took him to Ayr , the town of Ayr in which he ran errands as a boy , the harbour from which he went off to sea , and all of the land that was his estate of Orangefield . |
| 10 | These include Buckle Island , just off the Antarctic coast , and Mts Erebus and Terror , only a few kilometres from Scott 's original base camp , from which he set out on his last heroic journey . |
| 11 | I do n't suppose there 's much doubt that Milton approached his marriage a little late in life with an intensity of idealism that must , to some degree , have derived from the high conception of the chastity to which he had up till then dedicated himself , and poor Mary Powell , just like Desdemona , becomes a victim of male idealisation and the unreasonable demands that it makes . |
| 12 | This was to be the visit on which he linked up with The New York Dolls . |
| 13 | Extracting information on what he got up to there is n't easy . |
| 14 | Not for what he gets out of you . |
| 15 | God does not love you for what he gets out of you . |
| 16 | It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life . |
| 17 | They were the gate by which he entered on to the path which led ultimately to his acceptance as the authority on the distribution of arctic-alpine flora in Britain . |